August 2018
Beginner
160 pages
4h 8m
English
At the start of a project, your test suite is usually blazingly fast, running in a few seconds, and life is good. But as projects grow in size, so do their test suites, both in the number of tests and the time it takes for them to run.
Having a slow test suite affects productivity, especially if you follow TDD and run tests all the time. For this reason, it is healthy to periodically take a look at your longest running tests and perhaps analyze whether they can be made faster: perhaps you are using a large dataset in a place where a much smaller (and faster) dataset would do, or you might be executing redundant steps that are not important for the actual test being done.
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